A single mother considers using her gun against a possible rapist; a lone gunman creates chaos in a sporting goods store; an Oklahoma grandmother encounters an intruder.
The situations in the this episode are close calls. A pregnant woman in suburban Denver is helpless as she is attacked by her stalker in her secluded home. In Indiana, neighbors and paramedics rush to save two girls who have fallen through the ice on a frozen lake. A single mother is hunted by her ex-boyfriend on a North Carolina highway at high speeds.
This episode begins with a rural California widow calling 911 in the middle of the night as someone tries to break into her home. The horrifying story of a mass killing spree in a quiet Ohio neighborhood is told through 911 calls from frightened neighbors and the gunman's girlfriend. In an upscale suburb of Connecticut, a bitter divorce battle drives Richard Shenkman to kidnap his ex-wife and make numerous taunting and threatening calls to 911 as he holds her hostage in their former home.
A mom and her teenage son barricade themselves inside an upstairs closet with no lock and call 911 as an intruder searchers for their hiding place. When a hiker is swept down a mountain in a wave of snow and buried alive, his cellphone is his only lifeline to the outside world. After watching a speeding car careen out of control, two teenage Spring Breakers call 911 as they sprint to the fiery crash site to check for survivors.
The assistant manager of a sporting goods store calls 911 as one of her customers uses an electric saw to cut his way into the store's ammunition and gun rack. While on a family hike, two mothers call 911 seconds after witnessing an ice cave crash down on their two teenage sons. And when a young receptionist starts her day shift at LA Tan, she never imagines that she and another customer will come face-to-face with a serial killer in training.
When a young woman, home alone, sees two men crawl over her back fence, she dials 911 and as she begins to beg for help, she hears the sound of glass breaking downstairs. Hours after an Amber Alert is issued for a missing 4-year-old boy, a woman on her way to work, thinks she spots the child and his kidnapper! And a single mother is about to leave for her 8-year-old son's birthday party when her abusive ex-husband forces his way into her home and attacks her with a machete.
Valerie Haselton Drescher
Producer
Rebecca Toth Diefenbach
David McKillop
Elaine Frontain Bryant
Brad Holcman